Robbing the Jews: The Confiscation of Jewish Property in the Holocaust, 1933–1945, Martin Dean (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2008) x + 437 pp., cloth 65.00, pbk. 26.99
During her 1971 jailhouse interviews with Franz Stangl, journalist Gitta Sereny asked the former Treblinka commandant why the Nazis had exterminated Europe's Jews. Without hesitation Stangl answered, “They wanted their money.” Few scholars take Stangl's explanation seriously. They recogniz...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2011
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2011, Volume: 25, Issue: 1, Pages: 152-154 |
| Review of: | Robbing the Jews (Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010) (Wiesen, Jonathan S.)
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| Summary: | During her 1971 jailhouse interviews with Franz Stangl, journalist Gitta Sereny asked the former Treblinka commandant why the Nazis had exterminated Europe's Jews. Without hesitation Stangl answered, “They wanted their money.” Few scholars take Stangl's explanation seriously. They recognize that racist zeal, Social-Darwinist fanaticism, and technocratic opportunism are more fundamental to understanding the Nazi genocide than the desire for material riches. But could it be also that the Nazis killed Jews because they wanted their property and bank accounts? In Robbing the Jews, Martin Dean does not assert such a crude causality. But in this sobering book he does remind us that, on all levels, persecution was accompanied by plunder and confiscation. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcr020 |